Parent's Educational Engagement Factors in Amontay NSH: Bases for Participation Handbook

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Parents and stakeholders' engagement in the activities and programs at the Amontay National High School has been passive for the past years where attendees do not reach 50% of the whole population. Students felt that the school lacks communication with parents and has a poor relationship with its stakeholders that affect both their discipline and school performance. This study sought to create a handbook that would help parents and other stakeholders actively participate.

METHODS

This study is grounded in role construction theory, sense of efficacy, and open communication models that utilized a mix qualitative and quantitative design of research employing semi-structured interview, focus group discussion and validated survey questionnaire in the whole Junior and Senior High School's population of student's parents for SY: 2018-2019.

RESULTS

Parent's school activity involvement in Amontay NHS is influenced primarily by the activity involvement of the students and the parent's perceive benefits it brings to the education of children followed by the role teachers play in encouragement and communication. It is hindered by the procurement of a family's basic daily needs and conflict to where school activity involvement only comes secondarily. Parents have several queries and the principal concern talks about how their child performs and behaves and how can they help their children correctly at home. Lastly, parents want to ascertain that their children are the center of all planned and scheduled school activities where their support and participation needed to be specified and communicated in a variety of ways or through the parent resource and information center.

DISCUSSIONS

Amontay NHS needs to practice open and healthy communications with the parents in their language and culture considered, involve them in planning, implementation even evaluation of activities while emphasizing its activity's relevance. Make parents know and see that their children's well-being is given the highest priority by reports and consultation through establishing a parent resource and information center in the school.